The Effects of Self-efficacy, Empowerment, and Happiness on Teachers Self-assertion Teachers
Subject Areas : Educationalmohammad bagher kajbaf 1 , hamidreza arab bafrani 2
1 - عضو هیأت علمی دانشگاه اصفهان
2 - کارشناس ارشد روانشناسی دانشگاه اصفهان
Keywords: happiness, empowerment, self-assertion, Self-efficacy,
Abstract :
The present study was conducted to investigate the relationships between self-efficacy, empowerment and happiness with self-assertion of school teachers in Isfahan city. The research method was correlation and the statistical population was primary school teachers in Isfahan, from whom a sample of 100 persons was selected through two-stages clustered sampling. The research instruments included Adult Self-assertion Guestionnaire (Gay, Halendorth and Gallasi’s, 1975), Empowerment Scale (Espriritzer, 1995), General Self-efficacy Scale )Schuartz and Juresalem’s 1995), and Oxford Questionnaire of Happiness (Argyle and Loo, 1989). The data were analyzed via Pearson correlation coefficient as well as multiple regression. The results indicated that all the variables under study Were related with each other, significantly (P < 0.01). Moreover, through examining the degree of relationship between self-assertion variable with other variables it became clear that if all variables entered into equation, self-efficacy and happiness would relate significantly with self-assertion but empowerment would not relate significantly with self-assertion.
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